May 29, 2012

American artist Bill Nelson is best known for his exquisite
drawings done in colored pencil. His illustrations and caricatures, published
in all the major magazines, have earned him countless
awards — over 900 and counting! — including the field’s highest honors.

Nelson also brings his bounteous talents to sculpture,
creating highly collectable ventriloquist figures, one-of-a-kind dolls and
automata. Here, a superb sculpt of Boris Karloff in Monster getup whimsically
references the numerous photos of the actor kicking back and enjoying a smoke
between takes.

Nelson is a Monster Kid at heart, his early but already
fully accomplished work appearing in genre magazines of the Seventies such as Photon,
Gore Creatures and Cinefantastique.
I urge you to click around Nelson’s
exhilarating website and look for his illustrations of silent star Lon Chaney,
or his portraits of the characters from Tod Browning’s Freaks. You’re in for quite an experience.

“Intelligent and well-presented… avid in seeking out a wide range of examples... A useful research aid for those seeking to survey the uses to which the Frankenstein monster is still being put in popular culture.”— Intute, Arts & Humanities

“Outstanding and intelligent … I am insane with giddiness that "It's ALIVE!!"— Max, The Drunken Severed Head

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